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20.06.2019 > Social Innovation and Intervention: Impact, Methods and Implementation in the Healthcare and Social Sectors (publication project)

20.06.2019

Social Innovation and Intervention: Impact, Methods and Implementation in the Healthcare and Social Sectors (publication project)

Social innovation is a relatively recent reference which has gradually been defined as an alternative to technological innovation. It marks the rejection of economic growth as the sole perspective for development. For proposals, we call on all authors in the field of social and healthcare interventions who are dealing with questions related to social innovation and are keen to share their knowledge and experience, particularly within the context of Switzerland (but not only).

“Concise” texts with a maximum of 20,000 characters (including empty spaces & excluding the bibliography) allowing, for example, for the description and analysis of a specific social innovation project or measure.

“Short contributions” such as, for example, personal accounts, widening the standard scope of academic publications using illustrative insets and thus open the project to other forms of expression. These insets may consist of 2500 to 3500 characters (including spaces) or fill one page.

We invite all interested authors to submit proposals as follows:

title

4-5 keywords

proposed form of contribution (“long”, “concise” or “short”)

topic of the contribution with the questions addressed and the link to one of the above-mentioned dimensions and, if applicable, brief description of empirical data (method of analysis, results) and 3 to 4 bibliographical references (maximum 1800 characters including empty spaces)

a short biography of the author(s)

Please signal your interest to make a contribution by July 15, 2019, writing to pascal.maeder@hes-so.ch. Proposals may be sent to the same address until September 15, 2019.

The seventh edition of the "Swiss Festival of Qualitative Methods" will take place on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 September 2019 at the University of Lausanne (Géopolis building). The Festival presents recent innovations in the field of qualitative and mixed methods. During this edition, it will highlight the issues and challenges raised by open data in the field of qualitative research, through three thematic workshops and two plenary sessions.

On Tuesday 9 July 2019, researchers from the NCCR LIVES, representatives of associations and employees of the City of Chavannes-près-Renens (Vaud) met with the population of the same municipality to discuss the needs of the inhabitants. The objective is to develop activities that improve their social environment and quality of life, focusing on social connection.

Questions of how solidarity forms—and why and when it sticks—have been foundational to the social sciences: early scholars were attentive to social cohesion and class unity; more recently, notions of solidarity have been conceptualized in relation to performative assemblies of social movements and networks of collective action. We invite paper contributions from across disciplines as well as multi-modal presentations (performance, poetry, video, sonic ethnography, or demonstration), which explore the complex engagements with solidarity that emerge from—and respond to—anthropology’s history, methods, and modes of analysis.